A US government census of caribou in northern Alaska this summer could
provide ammunition for opponents of President Bush鈥檚 plans to drill for oil in
the area. Bush said last week that he would press Congress to approve drilling
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the area earmarked is precisely
where the giant caribou herd gathers most summers to give birth to calves and
graze on the rich pastures. Caribou experts suspect that the herd鈥檚 population
is already falling. Fran Mauer, caribou specialist at the US Fish and Wildlife
Service in Fairbanks, Alaska, told New 女生小视频 that the government
agency was 鈥済iving a very high priority鈥� to plans for a new census of the herd
on the coastal plain this summer.
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